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Coming up: what's on in the world of travel (Daily Telegraph)
A roundup of the week's best travel events festivals and shows.

China Blocks Travel for Parents Planning Quake Protest (New York Times)
Parents who were trying to travel to Beijing to ask the government for a full investigation into school collapses during the May earthquake were stopped by local police.

iGO iWRITE -- Travel Writers Become the New Face of Facebook (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Compleo , a social media consultancy based in Richmond, Virginia, has launched a unique web application on Facebook for travel fans, known as iGO iWRITE -- the first travel series to be compiled completely online and then published in hard copy via the popular social network.

Like Action and Adventure? Travel to Scotland (Today's News-Herald)
(ARA) - If the typical tourist experience bores you to tears and you can't take yet another bus tour, adventure travel just might be for you. Among thrill-seeking travelers, Scotland is quickly becoming known as a popular, action-packed destination.

Alon Yavnai | Travel Notes (All About Jazz)
Travelling. Travel across space. Finding the notes, finding the place. Where the music speaks, where the music sings. The endless map where time begins.

US issues travel warning for Mali, cites festival kidnap threat (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The US State Department on Thursday issued a warning against travel to northern Mali, particularly to an art and music festival in the Sahara desert where the advisory says there is a kidnapping threat against Westerners.

Travel Watch Headlines (TVNZ)
North Queensland businesses say they won't be asking `where the bloody hell are you?' as the financial crisis hits Australian tourism in 2009. Instead, it's hoped backpackers and Aussies turned off international travel will buoy the region, which may even see growth as other markets flail.